植松伸夫《最终幻想》原声音乐的节奏策略

IF 1.6 1区 艺术学 0 MUSIC MUSIC THEORY SPECTRUM Pub Date : 2023-07-17 DOI:10.1093/mts/mtad009
Richard J. Anatone
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本文讨论植松伸夫为16位《最终幻想》角色扮演游戏创作的主题配乐。我在这些配乐中确定了五种不同的技术,即游戏的主主题在音乐上与单个角色主题相联系:同名省略、动机网络、主题混合、联想托平和双主主题。我认为,这些不同的技巧展示了一个角色的个人旅程是如何反映故事潜在的文学主题的,而文学主题本身就是由音乐主旋律代表的。我对《FFIV–VI》的配乐进行了主题、动机、形式和符号学分析,并讨论了他们的人物主题虽然大多是非变革性的,但如何参与到一个由相互关联的主题家族组成的更大的主旋律网络中,这些主题家族以极具意义的方式与他们的主旋律互动。这项分析展示了主旋律评分可以提高人们对故事叙述学理解的微妙方式,对于那些试图将电子游戏配乐编排成告诉或复述游戏故事的程序音乐的人来说,这可能很有用。
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Leitmotivic Strategies in Nobuo Uematsu’s Final Fantasy Soundtracks
This article discusses Nobuo Uematsu’s leitmotivic soundtracks to the 16-bit Final Fantasy role-playing games. I identify five distinct techniques within these soundtracks whereby a game’s main theme is musically connected to a single character theme: eponymous omission, motivic networking, thematic hybridization, associative troping, and the double main theme. I argue that these different techniques demonstrate how a character’s individual journey reflects the story’s underlying literary theme, which is itself represented by the musical main theme. I conduct topical, motivic, formal, and semiotic analyses of the soundtracks to FFIV–VI and discuss how their character themes, though mostly non-transformative, engage in a larger leitmotivic network of inter-related thematic families that interact with their main themes in dramatically meaningful ways. This analysis demonstrates subtle ways in which leitmotivic scoring can heighten one’s narratological understanding of a story, and may be useful for those seeking to arrange video game soundtracks into programmatic music that tells or retells a game’s story.
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期刊介绍: A leading journal in the field and an official publication of the Society for Music Theory, Music Theory Spectrum features articles on a wide range of topics in music theory and analysis, including aesthetics, critical theory and hermeneutics, history of theory, post-tonal theory, linear analysis, rhythm, music cognition, and the analysis of popular musics. The journal welcomes interdisciplinary articles revealing intersections with topics in other fields such as ethnomusicology, mathematics, musicology, philosophy, psychology, and performance. For further information about Music Theory Spectrum, please visit the Society for Music Theory homepage.
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